Another IRC bot

Since our previous hosting facility is momently closed (see TuxFamily.org), we decided to set our own hosting resources. Don't expect anonymous CVS or the like, as this is our temporary replacement development facility.

Manderlbot is an IRC bot aimed at saying some useful and silly things, depending on the way you manage to configure it. It won't do any eggdrop service as controling a chan and remembering who should be op.

So you'll find here some documentation and a release to play with (you can find the sources on github now) . It includes a man page to launch and stop the bot, all the other tings you may wanna know are to be found on the documentation of the configuration file, as linked previously.

Here is a non exhaustive list of things manderlbot can do for you:

• google « I feel lucky » queries
• debian files and packages queries
• answer static or random sentences on events (regexp matching on what is said, who talked, irc operation, ...)

Manderlbot is debian packaged and you may find it in sarge and sid. So just

# apt-get install manderlbot

If you don't run debian, please use the tarball. You'll need to install those elements before trying to compile the bot :

• The Erlang system
• The xmerl library

Then you build and run manderlbot as usual :

$ make
$ sudo make install
$ man manderlbot
$ manderlbot start

By default, the logs from level notice are to be found in the file /var/log/manderlbot.log. You can of course change the log level and the file to be used from the command line, please RTFM!

Enjoy manderlbot, enjoy free software!